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...mate? Put your money on Gordon Brown, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, or finance chief, as the next Prime Minister. London bookmaker William Hill gives him overwhelming odds--1 to 5. Brown is brainy, experienced, and has been heir apparent since opting not to fight Blair for the Labour Party leadership in 1994. But a contest among Labour heavyweights is still possible. Scars remain from the long, venomous feud between Brown's backers and Blair's troupe as Brown has grown increasingly vexed at his long wait for the top job. Some Cabinet ministers are worried that Brown lacks...
Already, one left-wing Parliament member, John McDonnell, says he'll run for the Labour leadership. But he has no real shot (odds: 100 to 1 against). John Reid (8 to 1 against), a former Communist turned right-wing Blairite, has long disliked Brown and would relish a grudge match. But at 59, he's the oldest likely contender, and his style seems out of tune with the iPod age. Hipness wouldn't be a problem for David Miliband (12 to 1 against), the 41-year-old Environment Minister. He's articulate, attractive--he even blogs. Alan Johnson, a genial...
...most crucial reason for Labour to unite: the new Conservative leader, David Cameron, 39. Young and smooth, he's putting a windmill on his house to proclaim how green he is. "Blair's true heir," he calls himself, stealing New Labour's thunder as assiduously as Blair stole Margaret Thatcher's. After a decade of trailing Labour in the polls, the Tories are now up 8 points. It will probably be three more years before Cameron goes head-to-head with Blair's replacement in a general election. But polls consistently show that British voters loathe divided parties. Just...
...while processing this directive]your money on Gordon Brown, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, or finance chief, as the next Prime Minister. London bookmakers William Hill give him overwhelming odds - 1/5. Brown is brainy, experienced, and has been heir apparent since opting not to fight Blair for the Labour Party leadership in 1994. But a contest among Labour heavyweights is still possible. Scars remain from the long, venomous feud between Brown's backers and Blair's troupe as Brown grew increasingly vexed at his long wait for the top job. Some Cabinet ministers worry that Brown lacks Blair...
...internal rancor in the Labour Party will hardly benefit the man who plans to run it next. Among uber-Blairites there is talk of running a stop-Brown candidate for party leader, but that's near hopeless. Brown has a lock on the job. Once he gets it, he will have a problem similar to Al Gore's as he ran to succeed Bill Clinton as president in 2000: how to differentiate himself from a boss who, whatever his present weaknesses, has been a phenomenal success as a politician, and with whom he has few serious policy disagreements. "Obviously, Brown...